We speak to several children of Bayswater Support Group members. Their experiences highlight the harm groups like Bayswater do to young trans people, and the gateway they provide to broader far-right politics.| transsafety.network
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Trans Safety Network have written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), who announced that a new consultation would be launched on changes to their statutory Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations tomorrow (Monday, 19th May 2025). In light of the transphobic and harmful interim update issued by the EHRC in the wake of the recent Supreme Court judgment on the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010, TSN have significant concerns about the direction...| Trans Safety Network
London Trans+ Pride 2023, photo by John Lubbock, WikiMedia Commons| Trans Safety Network
London Trans+ Pride 2023, photo by John Lubbock, WikiMedia Commons| Trans Safety Network
Content warning:This article discusses gender identity conversion practices involving physical and emotional abuse of children and young people by parents. This includes some details of specific abusive acts. If you have been affected by abuse of this kind, the charity Galop maintain a conversion therapy helpline. Please note that screenshots in this article from an anti-trans organisation repeatedly misgender trans children and young people, these have been included to document the harmful b...| Trans Safety Network
In early October 2024, the head of the NHS’s only specialist service for children and young | Trans Safety Network
Following news that Health Secretary Wes Streeting met with conversion therapy activists, Trans Safety Network recieved leaks from their forums indicating they know they promote conversion therapy| transsafety.network
Since December 2023, trans schoolchildren have been in a strange limbo. The government has published but not formally adopted guidance mandating policies that are ostensibly intended to uphold child safety, but appear designed to compound the many issues children already face in schools across the UK.| Trans Safety Network
The BBC has published an article by Deborah Cohen on the NHS puberty blocker trial that is due to begin in 2025. In this article, Cohen quotes a member of conversion therapy activist parent organisation Bayswater Support Group as a neutral source.| Trans Safety Network
Psychiatrist Simon Wessely has been appointed to chair the National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board. This board has oversight and leadership of the research program which aims to underpin the redesign and redevelopment of the children and young people’s NHS gender services. The research programme includes a data linkage study, a puberty blocker study and a living systematic evidence review study. The chair of the research oversight board has conside...| Trans Safety Network
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the body responsible for promoting and enforcing equality law in the UK, has launched a consultation on changes to its Code of practice for services, public functions and associations, as part of the consultation, a draft version of the code has been published. On reviewing the draft code and comparing to the version currently in force, published in 2011, Trans Safety Network have noticed some concerning changes that may indicate shifts in the ...| Trans Safety Network
Photo by Karollyne Hubert on Unsplash| Trans Safety Network
A report by the ADI-SOGIESC,| Trans Safety Network
Gender critical organisations Sex Matters and For Women Scotland have launched a witch hunt to identify| Trans Safety Network
Disabled activists at a hustings event were harassed and filmed. They had their harassment posted to social media without their permission by anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen (also known as Posie Parker).| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network express our deep concerns about the transparency and integrity of the 2020 NICE evidence reviews| Trans Safety Network
The Royal College of Nursing have spoken out in the aftermath of vile statements and legally dubious promises made by Health Secretary Steve Barclay in speeches on the final day of the Conservative Party conference.| Trans Safety Network
Kellie Jay Keen (AKA Posie Parker) held a ‘Let Women Speak’ event near in Hyde Park last Sunday. However, from watching the events and speaking to attendees on both sides, it quickly became clear that only one side was there to support women’s rights - and it wasn’t Keen’s.| Trans Safety Network
In an ongoing case concerning a trans person’s death, the coroner has agreed| Trans Safety Network
The EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) has| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network notes its serious and ongoing concerns surrounding a study at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) following a reply from the University’s Ethics Panel.| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network have become aware of concerning information regarding a study of trans, nonbinary and gender diverse adolescents aged 13-17.| Trans Safety Network
Among many alarming features of the Cass Review final report was a statement made by Hilary Cass| Trans Safety Network
Slide from training video produced by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network has been informed that the Chalmers GIC in Scotland has paused surgical referrals for under 25s, and for gender surgery conducted in England (vaginoplasty, masculinising top surgery, and phalloplasty/metiodoplasty). The East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership, which includes the Chalmers GIC, have stated in a letter to the MP of an affected patient that the pause in referrals for under 25s is a result of the Cass review. The Cass review did not review any evidence...| Trans Safety Network
In a speech given to a conference in Lisbon held by anti-trans conversion therapy lobbying group Genspect,| Trans Safety Network
Following revelations this week that gender critical charity Sex Matters were joining For Women Scotland’s| Trans Safety Network
Bar chart of proportion with recorded transgender identity vs Townsend deprivation score group, based on data from McKechnie DGJ, O'Nions E, Bailey J, et al, Transgender identity in young people and adults recorded in UK primary care electronic patient records: retrospective, dynamic, cohort study, BMJ Medicine 2023;2A new cohort study published in the British Medical Journal attempting to estimate the proportion of trans people registered with GPs across different areas of the UK has found t...| Trans Safety Network
Minutes released from an extraordinary meeting of the Scotland Committee of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) show that the EHRC published its harmful letter advocating a change to the definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 despite strong internal criticism that this move would harm trans people, and seriously undermine the reputation of the EHRC as an independent body capable of protecting human rights.| Trans Safety Network
Names have been changed to preserve anonymity| Trans Safety Network
Speech to conversion therapy lobby conference in Lisbon laid out plans to use puberty blockers as stepping stone to attack rights of trans adults| transsafety.network
Psychiatrist Simon Wessely has been appointed to chair the National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board. TSN outline our concerns about this appointment.| transsafety.network
The EHRC has launched a consultation on changes to its Code of practice for services, public functions and associations. Trans Safety Network have noticed some concerning changes that may indicate shifts in the EHRC's priorities.| transsafety.network
A trans woman (referred to here as A for her privacy and dignity) has come forward to discuss the transphobic discrimination she experienced while attempting to access emergency healthcare on the NHS that left her with “zero trust with hospital emergency care” and “scared to go back” in future. A was admitted to an NHS Wales hospital in June of this year with a spontaneous haemotoma on her leg which left her in severe pain and unable to walk. Throughout most of her 12 day stay at the ...| Trans Safety Network
Following concerns raised about panels at the Royal College of Psychiatry (RCPsych) International Congress, Trans Safety Network has seen evidence that submitted questions about issues with the evidence base and ethics of claims made by panelists about trans healthcare, conflicts of interests in the panel and exclusion of trans lived experience voices have been suppressed by the organisation.| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network have sent a letter to NHS England demanding that they| Trans Safety Network
On 17-20 June the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) will host their 2024 International Congress at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The conference programme lists several speakers associated with anti-trans lobbying and the promotion of conversion therapy.| Trans Safety Network
Recommendation 3 of the Cass Review contains a smoking gun for conversion abuse in the NHS. One of the| Trans Safety Network
Elia Cugini investigates the ways in which the Cass Review recommendations| Trans Safety Network
NHS Scotland have implemented a “hold” on patients accessing puberty blockers via the Sandyford clinic. A source told Trans Safety Network that this hold was implemented as a result of “a group of clinicians from Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS”, meaning that there will be no further referrals to endocrinology from the Gender Identity clinic service.| Trans Safety Network
Many GPs believe that prescribing hormones for trans patients is not their responsibility. Inconsistency between the planned remits of Gender Identity Clinics and GP contracts in NHS England has created ambiguity around final responsibility for patient care, which has allowed the Royal College of General Practitioners and the British Medical Association to frame refusal of care to trans patients as a labour rights issue.| Trans Safety Network
The Cass Review final report has been met with condemnation, both from trans experts and professional therapy groups in the UK and around the world. In the aftermath of its publication and inflammatory contents, despite concerns from experts, politicians are putting pressure on NHS clinicians to rush through recommendations and throw caution to the wind, as well as threatening to rush through laws banning standard healthcare practices in the private sector. This is a threat to the safety of y...| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network express our deep concern about the UK Council for Psychotherapy’s (UKCP) withdrawal from the memorandum of understanding on conversion therapy (MoU2). MoU2 is a document agreed by major UK psychological, therapeutic and medical organisations that “makes it clear that conversion therapy in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation (including asexuality) is unethical, potentially harmful and is not supported by evidence.” The UKCP also released a statement in...| Trans Safety Network
Endocrinologist Donal O’Shea, who used to lead Ireland’s National Gender Service (NGS) reported to| Trans Safety Network
Yesterday (22nd of August 2023), Trans Safety Network (TSN) received a notification from YouTube that two videos on our channel had been taken down at the request of the anti-LGBTQ+, ultraconservative Christian organisation Family Education Trust. The two videos were unlisted on our channel but embedded in our article "I quite like that violent resistance": Gender critical activist Harry Miller's speech at conservative Christian conference. TSN regards this as spurious. YouTube’s terms of s...| Trans Safety Network
On the 24th of June 2023, the Family Education Trust (FET), an ultraconservative Christian organisation with strong links to the anti-trans gender critical movement, held its annual conference in London. One keynote speaker was anti-trans activist Harry Miller of the organisation Fair Cop. Fair Cop are an anti-trans organisation whose past activities have included their #SayYesToHate hashtag and intervening on behalf of James Goddard, a member of the far right organisation Patriotic Alternati...| Trans Safety Network
Last month, the originator of the controversial “Gender Exploratory Therapy” approach which rejects the| Trans Safety Network
On Saturday morning, the far right violently attacked members of the Lewisham community who had gathered to protect children attending a Drag Queen Story Hour event in Honor Oak Pub.| Trans Safety Network
What you need to take away| Trans Safety Network
We are trans organisations, disabled people's organisations, academics, human rights defenders and professionals in related fields. We condemn in the strongest terms all attempts to undermine the bodily autonomy and medical choices of disabled people.| Trans Safety Network
In a statement to the Daily Express, the Labour MP Rosie Duffield and Conservative MP Miriam Cates have declared that they are joining forces in order to prevent women’s rights being “wiped out by stealth” by “a small group of extremist activists” (ie trans people) who want to “shut up” women. | Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network strongly condemns the harmful guidance issued yesterday by anti-trans campaign group Sex Matters. The title of this guidance is “Teenagers and gender identity: the evidence base”, and has been issued in three parts. Despite posing as guidance “which does not prejudge outcomes for a gender-questioning child”, this guidance recommends withholding access to best-practice care and treating young people’s expression of their gender identity with suspicion. We are con...| Trans Safety Network
Editor's note - more examples continue to pour in of this disrespect for a trans girl's| Trans Safety Network
Popular ‘gender critical’ campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) has spoken out| Trans Safety Network
This article and documents that we link to contain details of suicide. If you are affected by the contents of this article,| Trans Safety Network
It is a necessary requirement of extinguishing trans people that trans women in women’s spaces be monstered. Portrayed as the enemy. Of course, this has a real human cost. In the last few days, this monstering has taken the form of a serious allegation of sexual harassment against an anonymous trans woman, accused of declaring her intention to wipe her hand on her penis as part of an otherwise innocuous conversation in a women’s bathroom. However, the more probable account of events outli...| Trans Safety Network
Our attention was drawn today to a new research programme being run by the UK Government’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (aka POST), investigating the causes of gender dysphoria, and analysing “trends”, announced on the 13th of February 2023.| Trans Safety Network
On Sunday 5th February, anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen| Trans Safety Network
Updated to add additional information about situations where particulars for registration must be provided by a coroner| Trans Safety Network
The bulk of the research for this article was undertaken on or before 18th January 2022.| Trans Safety Network
Major news broadcasters in the UK have started using trans voices to do more than fulfil their regulatory requirement for balance on controversial issues or make us debate reactionaries for sport. Watch the breakfast, lunchtime, early evening and late bulletins on the main linear UK TV channels and you’ll notice something different. Something has changed, and it’s the Scots wot done it – or rather the Westminster government’s attempt to overrule Holyrood on devolved matters.| Trans Safety Network
A TERF rally in Newcastle has drawn controversy for a speech citing Adolf Hitler’s Big Lie| Trans Safety Network
Minister for Women and Equalities Kemi Badenoch has announced| Trans Safety Network
The UK government has announced| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned about documents we have acquired| Trans Safety Network
Several reports have been made that Chalmers (Scotland) and Brackenburn (Northern Ireland) GICs have been sending out letters| Trans Safety Network
Although we are not a health-specific organisation, Trans Safety Network have| Trans Safety Network
On October 20th 2022, NHS England announced a new “Interim service| Trans Safety Network
On November 19th, 2022, the anti-trans campaign group For Women Scotland collaborated on an event run under the banner of the| Trans Safety Network
Yesterday in Nottingham, protesters gathered to demonstrate against the showing of a new transphobic film, called “Adult Human Female”.| Trans Safety Network
Several major professional associations for health professionals who treat| Trans Safety Network
We don't know much about many of those trans people murdered globally. For many there is limited information in the public record other than the circumstances of their death. This was true from the start, when activists in the late 90s began to collate information on trans killings from news clippings — it was an effort which came out of the information available being incomplete and typically reported from an anti-trans perspective by default.| Trans Safety Network
Following the drama which has followed the Conservative Party over the| Trans Safety Network
This guest article was made possible by our supporters. You can support| Trans Safety Network
From the 22nd to the 24th of October 2022 the registered charity FiLiA held its| Trans Safety Network
On 15 September, an article was published in Times Higher Education (THE)| Trans Safety Network
What| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network have been made aware of a document - published using what| Trans Safety Network
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As conspiracy theories about the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service spiral, including unevidenced beliefs that there are “thousands” of parents waiting to sue Tavistock and Portman Trust for gender dysphoria related care, several prominent anti-trans activists and therapists — many with connections to anti-trans campaigning organisation Genspect — have appeared in a film produced by David Icke’s streaming service. David Icke is notorious as conspiracy fantasist and antise...| Trans Safety Network
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Following the harassment of trans Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti (aka Keffals) by far right internet forum Kiwi Farms, there has been significant pressure on third-parties who enable Kiwi Farms to operate to withdraw their services. Keffals, alongside others, has created a website outlining the details of the campaign to #DropKiwiFarms.| Trans Safety Network
Content note: The following article seeks to lay out the evidence and extent| Trans Safety Network
Popular Twitch streamer Keffals has been the victim of a continued campaign of doxxing and harassment by internet forum site Kiwi Farms, including an incident of swatting. This harassment is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a wider pattern of harmful behaviour which poses a threat to the entire trans community. Trans people should not live in fear, and the attack by Kiwi Farms on Keffals and other trans people must be understood as an attack on us all.| Trans Safety Network
Multiple reports have emerged in trans support groups of people being contacted| Trans Safety Network
The general board of the Polish Sexological Society (Polskie Towarzystwo| Trans Safety Network
This letter was sent by a Trans Safety Network researcher to the editor of The Psychologist on 4th August 2022.| Trans Safety Network
Update: Garden Court Chambers have, since writing, released a statement in which they explain that they are "reviewing the judgment carefully... with a view to appeal". This means appeal might be much more likely than indicated in the analysis below| Trans Safety Network
In late June I was very honoured to present a joint keynote and panel at the| Trans Safety Network
Hate-group linked psychiatrist Stephen B Levine has claimed a role within a| Trans Safety Network
NB: Skip to Implications if you just want to know what the forecast is, not the details of the decisions.| Trans Safety Network
Trans Safety Network are opting not to publish screenshots from or link to| Trans Safety Network
The Evangelical Christian organisation the Family Education Trust (FET) held its annual conference on the 21st of May 2022 in London. The conference featured speakers from both conservative evangelical political organisations and figures from the Gender Critical (GC) movement, particularly those associated with allegations of Gender Identity Conversion Efforts (GICE). Controversial Irish psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, a director of Genspect, an anti-trans campaigning group, was a speaker ...| Trans Safety Network
Yesterday’s Queen’s Speech| Trans Safety Network
The news breaks| Trans Safety Network
A cartoon of a phone camera taking a photo of three doors. A cropping tool is being used to remove the door labelled 'women' from the frame. Image courtesy of @KatysCartoons on Twitter.| Trans Safety Network
Florence Ashley is a transfeminine jurist and bioethicist based in Toronto, where they are a doctoral student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Joint Centre for Bioethics. Their new book, “Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis”, carefully analyses the effectiveness of potential conversion therapy regulation, outlining the legal steps needed to ensure maximum effectiveness. It is a compelling read, importantly centring the question of ‘how’...| Trans Safety Network
Note: This article has been updated to the remove an example of forced visibility and harassment at the survivor's request.| Trans Safety Network